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20100729

News summary: two elderly Afrikaans ladies had fingers broken by 4 burly attackers but still fight back fiercely; SAPS bomb squad searches an Afrikaans school in Vrede after a bomb threat ; two young Afrikaner boys were attacked in their sleep in Potchefstroom by 4 armed thugs; a Bloemfontein minister's wife is torched to death but ‘police suspect no crime’...

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July 28 2010 - In the latest crime-reports to www.Farmitracker.com – which was launched from May 1 2010 to track ‘unreported crimes’ during the World Cup 2010 -- reported that two elderly Afrikaans ladies had their fingers broken by four burly attackers but had fought back fiercely; an SAPS bomb squad and sniffer dogs were called in to search the premises of an Afrikaans school in Vrede, Free State after a bomb threat against local Afrikaners - but nothing was found. 64-year-old Afrikaans minister’s wife Johanna Breedt, left, described by a daughter as always 'immaculately groomed and dressed', apparently killed herself by setting herself alight in Bloemfontein – the local SAPS said that 'no crime was suspected'... In Potchefstroom, two Afrikaans teenagers were attacked with their parents inside their own home; and an Afrikaans youth, 18, was publicly humiliated by the SAPS. The kind of news you don't get to read in the mainstream news media... and that’s why Farmitracker.com will continue to track the uncensored news… http://www.farmitracker.com/reports

Four armed black men invaded the home of Mr Botha Burger and his wife Adele at 3am on July 22 2010, dragged their two young sons Christiaan, 12 and Jan-Harm, 10, from their beds, and tied them up with their parents while their home was looted of some electronic bling and jewellery. http://www.potchefstroomherald.co.za/top10.htm#30

The family home was looted and the bling – including a TV set, two cameras, a laptop computer, cellphones and jewellery – was loaded onto the family bakkie and the gang drove off. When things quieted down Jan-Harm screamed for help through the open bathroom window to their housekeeper, who lives on the same erf but had somehow not noticed anything untowards whatsoever. She cut them loose and Mr Burger used the housekeeper’s cellphone to contact their security company. His bakkie was found abandoned alongside the road to Parys. Apparently the gang had gained access to the house by bending the burglar-bars in front of the livingroom windows. Another house-robbery als was reported the same week when a resident discovered that a window had been forced open and his TV set stolen. No-one was arrested in either case. http://www.potchefstroomherald.co.za/top10.htm#30

NELSPRUIT - The founders of Barberton Times, Mr Graham Lizamore (62) and Ms Kathleen (Kate) Lizamore (50), were brutally murdered in their home in Pinetown in KwaZulu-Natal last week. The couple had been working in the media industry for many years and got Barberton Times off the ground in 2001. They moved from the Eastern Cape to Durban barely two months ago where Ms Lizamore started working for Independent Newspapers. Their decomposing bodies were discovered on top of a toilet in a bathroom on Friday. Preliminary reports suggest that Mr Lizamore was strangled. A refuse bag was covering Ms Lizamore’s head - indicating that she might have suffocated. The bodies were later moved to the bedroom where they were carefully examined. No signs of forced entry could be found to their home in Moseley Park. A TV and even a handbag remained untouched in the lounge. The couple was last seen by a neighbour in the complex on Wednesday. Phone calls by family members remained unanswered and a sister of Mr Lizamore went to their home on Friday where she made the gruesome discovery at about 14:30. She was severely traumatised and is currently being hospitalised.The houses are situated close to one another and neighbours said that one could easily have heard screams from that distance. Two cases of murder are being investigated. Ms Michélle Sephton, who was part of the Barberton Times team, described Mr Lizamore as a patient, kind person who had so much love to give. "Kate and Graham were an inspiration to many and made Barberton Times rise out of the ashes like a phoenix, despite many Barberton residents saying that it was an impossible task. They were true pioneers in more ways than one."

“Gray complained about money being extorted from the aged. Perhaps this is why they were killed…’

The need amongst South Africa’s 3-million Afrikaners now is reaching crisis proportions, with scores of new tented squatter camps mushrooming over the past two months. South Africa shed another 60,000 jobs over the past two months, especially in the gold-mining sector: and it is now being reported on Farmitrackercom that tens of thousands of new Afrikaner squatters have set up little camps on marginal land-sites, filled with homeless, unemployable young families with small children. These desperate Afrikaner families still are still being denied all food-aid and even disability benefits from the South African government because they are ‘whites’.

SA president Jacob Zuma ‘s office two weeks ago had to personally intervene with ‘denialist’ officials of the SASSA social-welfare agency, forcing them to meet officials of the Helping Hand agency of the Solidarity trade union which organisations are trying to help more than 600,000 poor Afrikaners survive. Zuma’s intervention came after SASSA officials had announced that they knew ‘nothing of any poor-white problems’ and had therefor not budgeted for providing any emergency food-aid nor social-welfare payouts to poor whites.

Zuma’s office ordered SASSA to meet with representatives of Helping Hand to inform themselves of the true extent of this rapidly-growing problem. Zuma himself has already visited Afrikaner squatter camps twice over the past two years and during both visits had told the news media that he was ‘shocked at the extent of white poverty. ‘

VANDERBIJLPARK. – Two elderly Afrikaner residents of an old-age home, Mrs Margaret Snyman, 72 and her friend Mrs Griet Swart, 86, were attacked outside at 4pm outside their retirement residency complex by four young black men who had amazingly enough, first signed their names in the register of the guard-house of the heavily-protected, gated community of Herfsoord …

When the two Afrikaans women returned from their shopping trip at 4pm at Mrs Swart's cottage, a vehicle stopped behind them, four black men jumped out and tackled the two old women, trying to rip off their jewellery. Mrs Swart, who was driving, wasn't having this and smacked the two black men attacking her with her kierie (walking stick). They then threatened to shoot her butd she shouted at them: “What are you waiting for?” The witnesses who told the local newspaper of the incident said the the old lady continued defending herself so fiercely that one of the other men assaulting her friend in the passenger seat rushed to help the other two deal with Mrs Swart. One of the attackers then broke her finger to rip off her ring, as they also did with her friend. The angry women were taken to the Emfuleni Medi-Clinic for treatment and trauma treatment. Herfsoord chairman Fred van Rensburg also confirmed the attack. He said the four attackers had actually registered in the security gate's identity register telling the guard that they were fetching one of their employees. "This has never happened here before and we have tightened our security measures,' he said. Mrs Snyman also had her handbag stolen about a month earlier - and it is believed that the same crime-gang. The lo9cal police said they are 'investigating'. http://www.vaalweekblad.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3206:-rower-breek-bejaarde-se-finger&catid=1:warm-nuus&Itemid=27

Afrikaner widower Deon Verwey, 49, a resident of the world-famous surfing town of Jeffreys Bay, died after he was stabbed with a screw-driver while asleep in his bed on June 17 2009, Sunday-morning between 2am and 2.30am . His sister Annetta van der Merwe and SAPS inspector Petra Els both said Verwey was asleep in his bed when someone gained access to his house through a window and stabbed him. http://www.kougaexpress.co.za/index.php/newscat/34-headlines/83-inwoner-wreed-vermoor

Die Burger journalist Mariska Spoormaker reports that Verwey had left a trail of blood as he then struggled from the bedroom to the backdoor where he screamed for help. His feet were tied with some kind of cable, said his sister. However the police 'could not confirm this'. Mrs van der Merwe, who lives next door to her brother, said she and her friend J H Potgieter had heard him screaming for help. They ran to his home and discovered he had been stabbed. They took him to Humansdorp hospital in her car but he was dead on arrival. His daughter Michelle, 23, who also lives in Jeffreys Bay, said her father's death was 'so unnecessary. He was a kind loving person who never hurt anyone,' she said. Ten years earlier on 30 June 1999 Michelle had also lost her mom Laura in another violent tragedy: she was shot dead by a boyfriend. SAPS inspector Marianette Olivier said nobody was arrested for Deon Verwey’s murder. She claimed that 'items were missing from the house but we need to establish exactly what.' Anyone with information may contact the police at insp. Dobela tel 042 200 6600, 042 200 6600, or 083 739 2810, 083 739 2810 . Published in Kouga Express. http://www.kougaexpress.co.za/index.php/newscat/34-headlines/83-inwoner-wreed-vermoor

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BLOEMFONTEIN. The SAPS ‘do not suspect a crime’ in the torching-death of Mrs Johanna Breedt, 64, of the Serenitas Retirement Centre in Bayswater. Volksblad journalist Earl Coetzee reports that ‘it appears as if a flammable liquid was poured over Mrs Breedt in a field at Polhymnia Street before she was set alight.’Her distraught husband Rev Johan Breedt reportedly is inconsolable and says he doesn’t know what could have happened.

SAPS LtCol Annelie Wrensch said that from the evidence found at the Breedt home and that of a friend, her death ‘may not have been crime-related’. As required by law, an inquest into her death was opened.

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A worker at a private residence right next to the field went to investigate why their dogs were barking so much – and when she saw the burning woman, she alerted her homeowner Mr Mos Grobler, the SAPS and the fire department. A member of the Bloemsec-private security company who was patrolling the street also rushed in to help douse the flames. Mr Grobler said that initially he did not recognise the burnt woman – until he noticed her car parked nearby, and her cellphone near the scene, and realised that it was Mrs Breedt – a close family friend.

She was still alive when paramedics from ER24 rushed her from the scene to the Bloemfontein MediClinic with 100% burn wounds: she died shortly after 9pm. Medical personnel said her burn wounds were ‘the worst any of them had ever seen’. Her distraught and crying husband, Reverend Johan Breedt, stood helplessly at the scene and was reportedly inconsolable. He told the journalist that he ‘doesn’t know what happened at all and is awaiting information from the SAPS”. Their two daughters, Mrs Marina Wessels and Ms Daleen Breedt, were with their father, and their eldest daughter Mrs Marisa van Niekerk was expected to arrive from Hongkong.

Daughter Daleen said “she was a phenomenal mom. A homemaker par excellence and always well-dressed and immaculately groomed.’

20100727

Names of people notified as ‘murdered’ in rural and peri-urban areas of South Africa -- dates, sources –(includes seperate list of black-female farmers torched to death inside their homesteads over male-dominance related tribal land-rights issues:)

Nothing robbed 2010-07-26 Attackers have shot dead a young unarmed Afrikaner father on the Swavelpoort smallholdings on Monday July 26 at point-blank range - and then pushed his wife Bronwyn, 33 into a cupboard with her husband's corpse. Nothing was 'robbed' during the 7pm attack on Monday - but Boschkop police station commander LtCol Gavin The-Kisho describes it as a 'robbery'.

Virginia Keppler, Beeld, quoted LtCol The-Kisho as saying that the 'robbers' gained access to the Afrikaner couple's homestead on the rural smallholding by firing shots through the locks of front door. One attacker had a firearm, the other a steel pipe. Mrs Geyer ran to push the emergency button, chased by the black male with the steel pipe; while the male with the firearm grappled with Mr Geyer and then shot him dead at point-blank range.The attackers then pushed Mr Geyer's body into a cupboard together with his wife's before strolling out again. Nothing at all was robbed. The couple have two small children aged four and two years, Nathan and Morgan.

July 16 2010:Christopher (69), and Jennifer Early, (62) of UK, 2010-07-16 murdered, Hibberdene Woodgrange smallholdings, KZN bludgeoned and dumped in crashed car.The bodies of UK citizens Christopher Early, 69, and his wife Jennifer, 62, were found in the back of their damaged Volvo sedan, which had crashed in a ditch at Stick Farm, near the couple’s ransacked Woodgrange smallholding homestead at Hibberdene. SAPS col. Jay Naicker said in the Mercury story headlined “Mystery over couple found dead in car’, by Gugu Mbonambi and Yusuf Moolla (left, page 1 of The Mercury, July 19, 2010), that the family of the elderly South Coast couple, who were bludgeoned to death in their home on July 16 2010, were expected to fly in from the USA to identify their bodies. A passerby had seen the couple's car in a ditch and alerted police."When police arrived they found several items in the vehicle and discovered the bodies in the back of the car," he said. “The killers must have driven the car with their victims inside to Stick Farm, where they crashed the vehicle and ran away. It would appear that the couple were assaulted with a blunt object, but a post mortem will be done to determine the cause of death. " Three black men were arrested on July 22 2010 and expected to appear in Hibberdene magistrate’s court Monday. Two guns and cellphones stolen from the Early couple were found in their possession. The organised crime unit of Port Shepstone is investigating. July 19, 2010 http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20100719045123763C827984

DORNING: History expert on the secrets of the SA 'bush war" - Dr Warwick Antony Dorning, was shot dead execution-style at his Adamshurst Howick, Mpophomeni farm 2009-11-07 – and an SAPS inspector, pictured right, was arrested... Journalist Julia Denny-Dimitriou reported that the former senior government official and farmer was shot dead execution-style on his farm Adamshurst near Howick’s Mpophomeni area. He used to work as the chief-of-staff in the Premier’s office.Peter Miller, former Finance MEC and a long-time associate and family friend, said two armed men entered and shot him “stone dead, in cold blood, without warning,” The police were called and they found a 9 mm cartridge and a spent bullet on the scene.Miller said Dorning’s death was “a totally unnecessary killing. He worked for me for most of his career. He served the new South Africa in a very high capacity with distinction for about 15 years.He was a really generous and warm-hearted person.He was a highly educated man and an accomplished historian. Much of his PhD thesis, which covered recent South African history, including the bush war, is still classified. A kind and good man has been wantonly killed when he still had so much to offer.” It was reported later in The Witness that among the three arrested men had been a Howick falls SAPS-inspector Michael Sokhela. http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Farmer-shot-without-warning-20091108

2010-06-02 MEYERTON, VEREENIGING. Two teenage girls were gang-raped by the four black men who had first shot dead their father execution-style on their Meyerton smallholding on Friday-evening, May 28 2010, André Damons and Sonja van Buul of Beeld reported that police arrested four Mozambiquan citizens within just hours of the gruesome murder and gang-rapes. The unnamed murder victim apparently originally hails from Kuruman in the Northern Cape. He was attacked about 10pm at his smallholding at Boltan World, Meyerton on Friday. The only things which were ‘robbed’ were a tv-set and a radio, which were found back by the SAPS. http://www.nuus24.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Vier-vas-n%C3%A1-pa-vermoor-dogters-verkrag-is-20100602

20090623 Donald, Yvonne Gubb, survive attack, Pemberton dairy farm, Chrissiesmeer Mpuma The SA Press Association reports on June 24 2009 that yet another couple have been attacked on a dairy farm. This follows shortly after the recent gruesome murders of several dairy farmers in the greater Pretoria area in which farmer Attie Van der Grijp, the Van Den Bosch couple of The Netherlands and several others, were murdered. In today’s attack, the elderly parents of dairy farm owner Tracy Pemberton, Donald and Yvonne Gubb, were attacked and robbed at the Pemberton dairy farm in Chrissiesmeer, The couple were reported stable at hospital http://jv.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2532443,00.html

20080511 Moll, Jacques, 64 shot dead Ficksburg farm, killers shouted 'kill the Boer' 20080515 Murdered Ficksburg farmer Jacques Moll, 64, was shot dead by men who shouted 'Kill the Boer' on May 5 2008.However his murder has had a powerful religious impact on his young son Xavier, who was was taking a shower when the attack started.He said he was praying out loud, calling on Jesus, when two attackers had both pointed his rifles at him and pulled the trigger - but the guns failed to fire twice."It was a Godly experience I haven't been able to remain quiet about ever since,' he said."I stood in that shower and I knew my end was here. I prayed loudly, calling on Jesus. A Godly feeling of peace came over me when the guns failed to fire.' The attackers then turned around and left the young man with his other siblings in the house. Many residents in the district also saw the youth's deliverance as a miracle, and have since flocked to hear his testimony, the Volksblad newspaper reports. The murdered farmer was buried on their farm Stölberg. http://www.news24.com/Die_Volksblad/Nuus/0,,5-83_2322616,00.html

20080402 Afrikaner Ludik family survives rape/robbery terror ordeal, Kameeldrift, 5/04/2008 The Ludik family attended an emigration-expo in Pretoria on Saturday. The following Monday April 4 2008 mom Margot, 35, was raped by armed attackers while her six-year-old son was lying on the bed next to her.Gavin Prins reported in Rapport that she told her boy during her ordeal to 'lie still, pretend to sleep'.: Her husband Andries, a lawyer for well-known Afrikaner entertainers such as Leon Schuster, Sonette Bridges and Louis van Wyk, and their five-year-old daughter were tied up.Andries decided after the attack that they were speeding up their emigration plans for Australia. And the family was unable to return to their luxury smallholding after the attack.Ludik:"I have just one advice for crime victims: pack your bags and leave as quickly as possible. Afrikaans youths 'fake-urinate' in people's food and it's worldwide news.Families get attacked, it gets registered in the statistics, and South Africa is the only country in the world which has created laws to 'protect' the majority from a small minority.Margot hasn't been able to stop crying after the family's two hour horror, he said.The attackers woke them up in the middle of the night, threatening to kill the parents and hurt the children, constantly. "Any minute I felt as if a bullet was going to hit me,' he said.The Ludik family's neighbours were robbed in December. And it's suspected the same gang struck another family in a neighbouring suburb.http://jv.news24.com//Rapport/Nuus/0,,752-795_2300770,00.htm http://www.news24.com/Rapport/Nuus/0,,752-795_2300770,00.htmlhttp://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2322634,00.htmlhttp://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2322634,00.html

Six Kameeldrift used their own money, their own cars, off-duty time and their own phones to hunt down the killers of ex-cop Marius van Greunen, 38, Kameeldrift ."Seven times. Why did they shoot him seven times?" asked devastated widow Ilze van Greunen, 34, about the death of her husband, Marius, 38. Hilda Fourie, Beeld journalist, Pretoria . The former CID-inspector, the father of two small children, was found murdered in his bedroom. Marius had been an inspector in the criminal investigation department of the Kameeldrift police office before resigning about a year ago. After that, he worked in a brickyard. Ilze said: "They could've just shot him once, tied him up or hit him over the head. It wasn't necessary to kill him. Ilze and her children, Kay, six, and Zian, four, had been on holiday in Durban when Marius was killed on Saturday and they caught a flight back to Gauteng on Saturday afternoon. She had taken the children on holiday because the family had had a burglary at their home about two weeks ago and the children "did not even want to go to the bathroom alone anymore". "I just wanted to take them away from everything," said Ilze. Marius's brother-in-law, Louis Esterhuizen, 32, who lived on the smallholding in a separate house, said he was woken up by shots about 03:00 on Saturday. He didn't worry about it too much as apparently shots were fired regularly in the area. "I got up and looked around outside for movement, but didn't see anything," said Esterhuizen. "On Saturday morning I went to town. When I got back about 11:00 I became suspicious because Marius's car was still in the driveway. "All the doors of the house - except the door of his room - were locked and there was a ladder leading up to Marius's balcony. "I went into the house and found Marius on his bed in his room. He had been shot seven times. It's an image that will always stay with me," said Esterhuizen. Marius's laptop computer, cellphone and wallet had been stolen. His former colleagues had to investigate his death. Ilze said: "When I heard the news, I couldn't believe it."http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2297626,00.html

July 20 2010 – PRETORIA HIGH COURT. Christelle, the widow of murdered Brits farmer Brink Botha, said outside the Pretoria High Court on July 20 2010 where two of her husband’s murderers, Thomas Chauke and Zondi Nkuna of Soshanguve, were found guilty of murdering him, that “she’d forgiven the murderers because she wanted to get on with her life’. A third suspect, Derick Mabasa of Mozambique, was shot dead while fleeing from the custody of SAPS warrant-officer B Mmatli on 3 November 2008.

PORT ELIZABETH -- The cold-blooded murder of a middle-aged couple on a Kinkelbos farm On Dec 28 1999 has outraged the tightly knit community, reported by Ria Jordaan and others: Dispatch online 29 December 1999 Mr Jacobus "Doep" du Plessis, 55, and his wife Eunice, 55, were shot in the head at close range, while their nine-year-old grandson and domestic worker were abducted by two armed men on Brooklands farm, which Mr Du Plessis managed. The boy, Armand, and housekeeper Mrs Phumla Yozo watched in horror as the killers pumped bullets into Mr Du Plessis. A short while later they heard the shots as Eunice du Plessis was killed in the same manner. Armand and Phumla were unharmed and released by the killers who took them hostage as they made off in Mr Du Plessis's bakkie with a TV set, a firearm and a telephone, the only items which were taken. The boy and the worker were dropped off in the bush about a kilometre from the scene as the murderers, it seemed, changed their minds about holding them. Armand later told his mother: "All I could think about was when they were going to shoot me too." Police recovered the stolen Du Plessis bakkie in Motherwell. Outraged members of the local farmers commando also arrived and tried to cordon off the main exit routes. Area commissioner Malizo Ntswahlana also arrived, and tried to comfort little Armand, assuring the boy: "Don't worry, we're going to get them." The drama was described to the Herald by a distraught Phumla, who said the family was busy preparing for the departure of Armand, who had been visiting for a few days. He said Mr Du Plessis and Armand were washing the family bakkie when the men approached from the back. "I was hanging washing on the line when I heard the gunshot. I then saw oubaas falling down on his face," said the shaken Phumla. She and Armand ran away and hid behind a water tank in the yard. "We then heard a second shot ringing inside the house and I took off with Armand towards the bushes. "The men quickly caught up with us. They held us up and brought us back into the house demanding that we open the safe," she said. When it became clear that the two did not know where the safe keys were, the men seized a firearm which was on top of the safe, a television set and a tele- phone, before abducting the two. "After they had dropped us quite far away from the house, we walked back and when we reached the house I took out a spare telephone and contacted the police," said Phumla. When Armand's mother Zelda came to the farm after being informed of the killings, she sobbed and held her son close, saying: "I nearly lost you too." Farm owner Gerhard van Rensburg, who was reluctant to speak to the Herald, said: "It is as if your own mother has been murdered". He had known the couple for four months. The murder is the third farm murder in the Eastern Cape since November 1999. http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Robbers-gun-down-farmers-wife-20060117

Zama Mpondwana of Dispatch Online. reported Nov 1997 in EAST LONDON: - Police assisted by angry farmers searched for two men wanted for the brutal murder of Burgersdorp farmer's wife Ansie Venter, 367, and the abduction of her four children. Mrs Ansie Venter's children were forced to watch while their mother was fatally shot in the head after she had earlier been shot in the stomach. Inspector Jackson Tiya of the Burgersdorp police said one suspects had been identified by locals after three of the children had supplied police with identikits of the killers. It is believed the men had lain in wait on Bloukrans farm for Mrs Venter, 36, and her children to return on Friday afternoon from a trip into town. Mrs Venter's husband, Hansie, was on business in Aliwal North. After shooting their mother, the men forced her children into her car. After crashing the car on a farm road, the killers separated the children, locking the two boys Johan, 14, and Gerhard, 3, in a rondavel on a neighbouring farm and fleeing with the girls Lindie, 12, and Charlotte, 11 months. The two girls were abandoned some distance further and were later found in the veld by police. Mrs Venter's body was found near the farmhouse, which had been ransacked. Police said Lindie was severely traumatised and had been examined by a police doctor. Incensed farmers vowed to avenge the slaying. "It's now a situation of kill or be killed," said Eastern Province Agricultural Union president Pieter Erasmus. Sapa reports Freedom Front leader General Constand Viljoen blamed the African National Congress for the death of Mrs Venter. "They have encouraged a state of hate and lawlessness, worse than anything ever experienced in the country, and are doing little to correct the situation," Gen Viljoen said. Communities had their own ideas about how to deal with crime, he said. "The police have tried one plan after the other, with little success. The ANC must admit that the crime situation in South Africa is out of control and allow communities to implement their own security measures in association with security forces." http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Robbers-gun-down-farmers-wife-2006011

Nine life-serving prisoners paroled September 09 2009 Nine prisoners serving life sentences have been granted parole, the correctional services ministry said on Wednesday. They include Butana Almond Nofomela, whose death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment after he exposed apartheid hit squads. The names of the others have not yet been released. Correctional Services Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula made the decision after considering National Council on Correctional Services (NCSS) recommendations about the placement of 18 lifers who had served at least 20 years in jail, her ministry said in a statement.The 18 were among 57 prisoners who had served 20 years of their life sentences and were eligible for parole, it said. Nofomela's parole was "subject to certain conditions", the ministry said, but did not elaborate. On August 21, 2009 NCSS Council Chairman Judge Siraj Desai recommended that the conditions of Nofomela's parole “include referral for psycho-social support to help him reintegrate into society, pre-release programmes and that he not be in possession of, or have access to firearms.” In granting the paroles, Mapisa-Nqakula said it had to be borne in mind that "such offenders are placed on parole for the duration of their natural lives and should they break their parole conditions they will again be detained". Nofomela was sentenced to death in September 1987 for the murder of Johannes Lourens on his farm near Brits. The day before his scheduled execution, he confessed to being part of a hit squad that murdered eight operatives of the then-banned African National Congress.Among those murdered was human rights lawyer Griffiths Mxenge. Nofomela was granted amnesty for these political murders, but still had to serve a life sentence for Lourens's murder. In "exercising her discretion" to grant parole to the nine lifers, Mapisa-Nqakula took into account the protection of the community, the risk of re-offending and the likelihood of successful reintegration of the offender into the community, the ministry said. She said her decision was informed by case management committees and the correctional supervision and parole boards. She also called on communities to take part in the processes of parole boards."Victim participation is an essential part of the restorative justice process, which informs the policies of the department of correctional services," she said."Communities also need to facilitate offender reintegration into society to help us break the cycle of crime and reduce re-offending in our society." – Sapa http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?from=rss_South+Africa&set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=nw20090909192234370C451884http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/23/world/south-african-bolstered-in-claim-he-belonged-to-police-hit-squad.htmlhttp://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Nofomela-a-free-man-20090911http://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZASCA/1993/203.html

Northwest farms targetted by 20 attacks between May 22 2010 and July 15 2010: 3 dead, four cops arrested aiding and abetting farm-attackers:

Murdered July 4 2010: Mrs Johanna Magrietha Smit, 78, owner, Witpoort smallholding, Wolmaransstad, North West. Nothing robbed. Twenty farm attacks occurred in North West province ‘s Schweizer-Reneke district as well as in Donkerhoek since May 22 2010. During two of these organised attacks, thwarted by farm-security members -- four SAPS officers were also arrested for ‘alleged involvement’ in these attacks – two for driving get-away vehicles.

July 16 2010: The bodies of UK citizens Christopher Early, 69, and his wife Jennifer, 62, were found in the back of their damaged Volvo sedan, which had crashed in a ditch at Stick Farm, near the couple’s ransacked Woodgrange smallholding homestead at Hibberdene.

SAPS col. Jay Naicker said in the Mercury story headlined “Mystery over couple found dead in car’, by Gugu Mbonambi and Yusuf Moolla (left, page 1 of The Mercury, July 19, 2010), that the family of the elderly South Coast couple, who were bludgeoned to death in their home on July 16 2010, were expected to fly in from the USA to identify their bodies. A passerby had seen the couple's car in a ditch and alerted police."When police arrived they found several items in the vehicle and discovered the bodies in the back of the car," he said. “The killers must have driven the car with their victims inside to Stick Farm, where they crashed the vehicle and ran away. It would appear that the couple were assaulted with a blunt object, but a post mortem will be done to determine the cause of death. "The organised crime unit of Port Shepstone is investigating. Three black men were arrested on July 22 2010. Police also confiscated two firearms - one belonging to Mr Early, and six stolen cellphones, two identified as belonging to the murdered Early couple.The three are scheduled for a remand appearance on Monday July 26 2010 at the Hibberdene magistrate's court.http://www.volksblad.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Drie-vas-vir-Hibberdene-moord-20100723-2

"The second attack was much more dangerous. They want to kill all the Boers. The more cruel the killing is, the more enjoyment they get"...

BETHLEHEM, Free State. July 22 2010. 67-year-old farmer Gert Lange of the rental farm Vaalbank near Bethlehem pretended to play dead to save himself from being killed. It's the second time that he's been attacked this year. Lange who also runs cattle on his family farm, said things are getting too rough now - he's planning on selling up everything and moving in with his children at Upington. "The second time around, there was nothing left to steal in the homestead. They took all my guns and money in January. Everything I ever owed has already been stolen,' Lange told Volksblad journalist Jana van der Merwe. De farmer said he was sitting next to te heater and watched TV when he heard something - his hearing isn't the best any longer, and he thought it was the dog."When I opened the door, three black men with balaclavas grabbed me, tied me up and demanded money.' He told the men that all his money and guns already were stolen - and then the men stabbed him in the chest and face.He also was repeatedly kicked in the ribs, face and head. "I wasn't frightened or shocked like I was in January. I just haven't got any (feelings) left,' he said.He was lucky: the knifewounds weren't deep enough to penetrate into his heart, so the farmer lay very still in the growing puddle of blood, pretending to be dead.The men walked past him again to check out whether he was still alive. "It felt as if a sheep had been slaughtered. I remained very still.'The attackers then fled with his one-ton bakkie but the vehicle was abandoned when it ran out of fuel near Lindley. After they left he crawled 120 meters to the nearest cottage of a farm-worker, who reacted very quickly and called an ambulance."I know I was lucky. The second attack was much more dangerous. They want to kill all the Boers. The more cruel the killing is, the more enjoyment they get. I consider moving now."Things are just getting to rough.' He's thinking of moving in with his children at Upington. During the previous attack occurred just after he's sold cattle for thousands of Rands. He believes that 'word gets around when a farmer has cash in his homestead." SAPS sergeant Mmako Mophiring claims that police are investigating. They didn't dispatch a team of trackers to trace down the farm attackers after they found the vehicle, however.Nobody has been arrested. http://www.volksblad.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Boer-tweede-keer-in-huis-oorval-20100723

nothing robbed 2010-07-26 Attackers have shot dead a young Afrikaner father on the Swavelpoort smallholdings on Monday July 26 at point-blank range - and then pushed his wife Bronwyn, 33 into a cupboard with her husband's corpse. Nothing was 'robbed' during the 7pm attack on Monday - but Boschkop police station commander LtCol Gavin The-Kisho describes it as a 'robbery'.

Virginia Keppler, Beeld, quoted LtCol The-Kisho as saying that the 'robbers' gained access to the Afrikaner couple's homestead on the rural smallholding by firing shots through the locks of front door. One attacker had a firearm, the other a steel pipe. Mrs Geyer ran to push the emergency button, chased by the black male with the steel pipe; while the male with the firearm grappled with Mr Geyer and then shot him dead at point-blank range.The attackers then pushed Mr Geyer's body into a cupboard together with his wife's before strolling out again. Nothing at all was robbed. The couple have two small children aged four and two years, Nathan and Morgan. Mr Geyer's business partner Werner Scholtz wrote on his facebook page: "It is with great heartsore that I write the following. My best friend, my business partner and my 'brother' Ryan Geyer has become another crime statistic in South Africa.Ryan, Soutie, my old mate, I am going to miss you a lot, a lot, I love you. Ryan is survived by his wife Bronwyn and their two children Nathan(4) and Morgan(2) -

The term "genocide" was coined by legal scholar Raphael Lemkin in 1943, writing:

'Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actionsaiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves.

The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of personal security, liberty, health, dignity and lives of the members of such groups... '